Screen-marker



I 1.0. MILNES.

SC-REENMARKER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-8.19M.

1,845,21 1. Patented June 29, 1920.

/5 /7 a 3 fl I JJ/Z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN'COOPEB, 'M ILNES, OF CHIQAGO,-ILLINOIS.

SCREEN-MARKER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN CoorEn MILNES,

a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Screen-Marker, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to marking devices adapted for use in connection with window and door screens.

An object of this invention is to provide novel means for attaching a marking platev V nation and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention has been illustrated in its preferred embodiments in the accompanying drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a fragmental side elevation of a window or doorscreen, showing the invention applied to the top rail of the screen.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device with the card holding plate in its open position. I

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken 7 on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional View taken on the line 44 of Fig. 3. V

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the card holding plate.

Referring to the drawing there is'shown the conventional door or window screen S and the usual top rail R of the screen frame.

The invention comprises an oblong card holding plate 10 of rectangular form and ahousing or shielding plate 11. The card holding plate 10 has its intermediate portions offset as indicated at 12 to define a card receiving depression, and portions of the plate 10 adjacent the ends of the depression are upstruck to provide resilient gripping fingers 01' tabs 13 adapted to engage and secure a marking card 14 which is received within the depression of the plate 10. An extension or arm 15 is formed at Specification of Letters Patent. i Patented J A 'piic'atibn flied September 8, 1919. Serial N a22, 276.

' Having thus described my one end of the plate 10, and a longitudinally disposed manipulating finger 16 extends perpendicularly from one lateral edge of the arm 15.

Nails or. other securing devices'17 extend through the shielding or housing plate 11 to securely attach this plate to the rail R, and one of the nails also extends through that end of the plate 10 which is remote from the arm 15, thereby pivotally securing this plate between the rail R and shielding plate 11; One end of the shielding plate 11 has a recess18 formed in one of its longitudinal edges for the reception of the manipulating finger 16 when the plate 10 has been moved to its closed or housed position.

In use, the marking or identification card 14: may be inscribed with any desired data and preferably with an inscription that ,will readily determine the proper location of the' screen in any portion of a selected building; and by way of illustration the present card 14 has been marked to indicate that this screen is, to be used in right hand window of front room or third floor of building 105 E street. This card 14 is then positioned under the fingers 13 within the depression of'the plate 10 and the plate 10 is in turn moved about its pivot to its housed or shielded position between the rail R and shielding plate 11. Now the screen may be positioned within its window or door frame Without injury to its marking or identification card and this card may be readilyexamined at any subsequent time by simply gripping the manipulating finger 16 and moving the plate 10 laterally to its open or exposed position. v

V invention what is claimed is A frame marker including a shielding plate positioned in spaced relation to the frame, a card-holding plate positioned be.- tween the shielding plate and the frame, said card-holding plate being formed of sheet metal of uniform thickness and havingan ofi'set portion defining a card-receivi'ng depression, ,an identification card positioned within the depression, resilient gripping fingers struck from the card-holding plate and adapted to resiliently engage the identification card, a reduced extension formed at one terminal of the card-holding plate, a securing device extending through apertures formed in the shielding plate and card-holding plate and projecting into the frame, thereby forming a pivot for the card- In testimony that I claim the foregoing holding plate and securing means for the as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signa- 10 shielding plate, a separate securing device ture in the presence of two witnesses.

extending throu h the shielding plate and projecting into the frame, and adapted to JOHN'COOPER MILNES' engage the reduced extension to thereby Witnesses: limit the inward movement of the card- EVA LIcHTENsTEIN,

holding plate about itspivot. V MAUDE :WILLETT. 

